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Housing Bill And Postponement Of Home Information Packs

EDM number 616 in 2003-04, proposed by Ian Gibson on 11/02/2004.

That this House believes that the process of buying and selling a house in England and Wales should be improved; thinks that proposals contained in the Housing Bill to introduce home information packs (HIPs) are not in the best interest of the consumer and will not significantly improve the problems faced by home buyers and sellers; recognises that mandatory HIPs will delay properties coming on to the market and that the cost to each seller of compiling an HIP is estimated to be ú600, and ú1,000 in London, which will burden consumers with at least ú300 million of extra costs per year; endorses the recommendations of the Select Committee of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, in its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Housing Bill, that the mandatory introduction of HIPs should be postponed until extensive pilot-testing has been carried out in different parts of the country; and therefore urges the Government to consider whether the wholesale introduction of home information packs is either necessary or of benefit to the home buying and selling process.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ian Gibson11/02/2004Norwich NorthLabourProposed
Bob Spink12/02/2004Castle PointConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer12/02/2004KeighleyLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders23/02/2004TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Kate Hoey23/02/2004VauxhallLabourSigned
Vincent Cable23/02/2004TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings23/02/2004EasingtonLabourSigned
Edward Garnier23/02/2004HarboroughConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley23/02/2004Worthing WestConservativeSigned
John Taylor23/02/2004SolihullConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis23/02/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Mike Wood24/02/2004Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Harold Best24/02/2004Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Edward Davey24/02/2004Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke24/02/2004Mid Dorset & North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed24/02/2004South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Keith Bradley24/02/2004Manchester, WithingtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/02/2004GowerLabourSigned
Andy King25/02/2004Rugby & KenilworthLabourSigned
Alan Meale25/02/2004MansfieldLabourSigned
Diana Organ25/02/2004Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham25/02/2004Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin25/02/2004Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Desmond Swayne25/02/2004New Forest WestConservativeSigned
Marsha Singh26/02/2004Bradford WestLabourSigned
Dennis Turner26/02/2004Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Matthew Taylor26/02/2004Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones26/02/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake27/02/2004Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Colman27/02/2004PutneyLabourSigned
Robert Marshall-Andrews01/03/2004MedwayLabourSigned
Frank Cook01/03/2004Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Terry Lewis02/03/2004WorsleyLabourSigned
Alan Beith02/03/2004Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Helen Clark02/03/2004PeterboroughLabourSigned
Peter Ainsworth02/03/2004East SurreyConservativeSigned
David Ruffley04/03/2004Bury St EdmundsConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson04/03/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Michael Spicer04/03/2004West WorcestershireConservativeSigned
John Butterfill10/03/2004Bournemouth WestConservativeSigned
Ann Widdecombe10/03/2004Maidstone & The WealdConservativeSigned
Phil Sawford11/03/2004KetteringLabourSigned
Charles Hendry11/03/2004WealdenConservativeSigned
Huw Edwards11/03/2004MonmouthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore15/03/2004HendonLabourSigned
Adrian Flook15/03/2004TauntonConservativeSigned
Mark Fisher16/03/2004Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
Menzies Campbell17/03/2004Fife North EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Green17/03/2004LudlowLiberal DemocratSigned
Sydney Chapman18/03/2004Chipping BarnetConservativeSigned
John Barrett22/03/2004Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
David Amess25/03/2004Southend WestConservativeSigned
David Crausby26/03/2004Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn31/03/2004JarrowLabourSigned
Sue Doughty01/04/2004GuildfordLiberal DemocratSigned
Steve Webb19/04/2004NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Field20/04/2004Cities of London & WestminsterConservativeSigned
Don Foster20/04/2004BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Philip Hammond22/04/2004Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Norman Lamb27/04/2004North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
John Grogan27/04/2004SelbyLabourSigned
Phil Willis28/04/2004Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Baldry06/05/2004BanburyConservativeSigned
Simon Hughes20/05/2004North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned

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